Lecture

Postponed to mid October until further notice: Roundtable "Public Use of...

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium II

Lecture

"Why are we moving in the opposite direction of perpetual peace?"

Panel Discussion

Designing Arab Modernity: Al Mashrou' - Alami’s modernist endeavor in...

Public research seminar

„Inter-cultural Dialogue: A Dream that turned into a Nightmare. A Personal...

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium II

Book fair

OIB Summer Book Bazar

Research Colloquium

Knowledge and Culture Transfer in the Mamluk period (1250 – 1517)

Workshop

Dealing with Material Culture in the Eastern Mediterranean. Between...

International conference

Artistic hubs in and of the Arab Region

Panel Discussion

War and civilizationist horizons

Public research seminar

The ‘Alawis of Syria from World War I to the Turkish War of Liberation

Public research seminar

The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule Revisited

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics

Lecture

Albert Hourani, and the American University of Beirut, 1937-1939

Book fair

Lebanese Book Festival

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics

Lecture

Islamic Environmental Ethics Between Theory and Practice. Observations of...

Research Colloquium

"Lebanon As A Crossroad Of Displacement(S): An Assessment Under...

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics

Research Colloquium

Shaken Hierarchies: The Role of Northern Biqaʿs Qabaḍāyāt in the Great...

International conference

“Global Weimar – Global Nahda”

Lecture

Knowledge and Its Discontents: Religion and Society according to al-Jāḥiẓ

Research Colloquium

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

Public research seminar

Werte im Widerstreit. Der globale Süden und der Westen

Research Colloquium

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

Research Colloquium

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

Public research seminar

Before Solidere: The urban history and planned erasure of Downtown Beirut’s...

Josef van Ess-Memorial Lecture

Thinking through smell: Olfaction in early modern Near and Middle Eastern...

Book talk

A CULTURE OF BUILDING: Courtyard Houses in the Old City of Aleppo

ندوة

"زقاق البلاط، مدرسة المعلم بطرس البستاني والأثر الأكاديميّ في بيروت"

Research Colloquium

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

A Conversation and a Book Launch

THE LEBANON UPRISING OF 2019 Voices From The Revolution

Workshop

Spaces and Places – Art Exhibitions in Lebanon (1940s-1990s): (Re)assessing...

Summer Academy

(Call for Papers) Summer Academy on the Entangled Histories of Concepts in...

Research Colloquium

OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics

Film Screening

Film festival on human rights and migration

Research Colloquium

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

Film Screening

Cinema weeks of the Orient-Institut Beirut: “Communities of being-together...

Public research seminar

The Question of Palestine in Germany

Public research seminar

„OIB-COSIMENA Research Colloquium on Ethics”

Summer School

BICAR SUMMER SCHOOL 2023: IS THERE A REVOLUTIONARY SUBJECT?

Public research seminar

The second day of the seminary “Alpinism worldwide – Mountains and Society”...

Public research seminar

Mountaineering in Pakistan A personal challenge and its symbolic impact

Book talk

Charles Malik, On Being and Time: The Division on Heidegger from the 1937...

Research Colloquium

Gender Ethics: „What is an Ethical Tafsir of Gender?

Panel Discussion

Curating an Artist’s (and Parent’s) Biography

Book talk

Losing Istanbul:Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of Empire

Conference

The religious Other in Quranic Tafsir

Public lecture

Anthropology “Out of Place”: Towards a new Ethnographic Praxis

Public lecture

Anthropological trajectory, theoretical and ethnographic issues

International Symposium

Anthropology in Arab Countries

Public research seminar

The Globalization of Palestine Reconsidered: Solidarity Movements and...

Workshop

Open Science: Concepts, Publishing Practices and Knowledge Production

Book talk

Beyond the lines social networks and palestinian militant organizations in...

Workshop

Contested (in)visibilities and memorial cultures: towards a critical...

Conference

Living in a Digital Age: Technology and its Effects on Religion and Popular...

Keynote Lecture

Reverberations of Interconnected Crises: Solidarity, Agency & Identity...

Public research seminar

Occidentalist Mapping: Arab Spring and Self subversive Representation of...

Lecture

At the Arab Film Club in Beirut: Occasions to “Hear & Be Heard”

Public research seminar

Waving the Mantle of the Prophet

Book talk

A Book Talk by Rosie Bsheer: Archive Wars

Workshop

The Qur’an Manuscript in its Artistic Context

Book talk

A Book Talk by Tine Gade: Sunni City

Conference

Discussing the interdependence between Humans, Religion and Environment

Public research seminar

Negotiating Diverse Identities in Late Mamluk Court Culture: Law, Gender...

Lecture

BALANCE AS JUSTICE: DECONSTRUCTION OF PREMODERN ETHICS ON THE BASIS OF...

Conference

WOMEN AGAINST VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

Lecture

TRAUMA AND TABOO: PALESTINIANS IN GERMANY AND SWITZERLAND

Public research seminar

Mere Desolation? On Daesh's iconoclasm

Discussion

Religious Pluralism in Lebanon and Germany

International conference

Labors of love, trials of friendship Challenges of the modern social...

Summer School

Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources

Workshop

Coexistence Theology various methods and theoretical approaches

Workshop

Avicennism(s) in Context: The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in...

Workshop

Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc...

Workshop

Reckoning with God: Divine-Human Relations after the Arab Spring

Film Screening & Music Performance

Mastering the Oud A Tribute to Albert Mansour

Workshop

REVOLT IN(G) Collapse

Public research seminar

Politics and music in the 20th and 21st centuries in Lebanon

The German- Lebanese History Prize

Launch of the German- Lebanese History Prize

Summer School

Moving Biography

Keynote Lecture

Contemporary Innovations in Arab Biography: A Conversation

Keynote Lecture

The Biographical Tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature

Public research seminar

Vaccination in the late Ottoman Empire

Workshop

Typologies in the Islamic Ethical Discourse

Workshop

Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc...

Photo Exhibition and Film Screening

Relations in the Ideoscape – Photo Exhibition and Film Screening at the...

Public research seminar

Collège de Notre-Dame de Jamhour Past – Present / Some Ideas on the Future...

Celebration

OIB's 60th anniversary 2021

International conference

COEXISTENCE AND SOLIDARITY IN TIMES OF WAR

Workshop

Alles ist Data? Tout est Data!

Public Screening

Beziehungen im Kalten Krieg – Filme zwischen Nordafrika und Ostblock |...

Public Screening

The Second Evasion | Film Screening and Discussion

MWS Connecting Themes Conference

Contested Knowledge in a Connected World

Discussion Session

Arabic as a Living Language: Challenges & Horizons

Online Public Seminar

Taboo, Trauma, and Identity: Subject constructions of Palestinians in...

Veranstaltungsreihe

Von Kairo nach Karl-Marx-Stadt: Studieren im Kalten Krieg

Online Public Seminar

An Online Discussion with Maryam Al-Ali, author of Akhbār Khadījah bint...

Public research seminar

Not-so-Failed State, Militias' Invisible Hands & Inconspicuous Civil...

Round Table, Training and Photography Exhibition

Memory of war

Online Seminar

Online Seminar on The Role of New and Social Media in Managing Crisis in...

Workshop

Diffracting the Mediterranean. Rethinking infrastructural environments...

Workshop

Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire

Public research seminar

The (Un-)literal World How the Construction of Metaphor Theory in Islam...

Public research seminar

Beirut’s Public Spaces After October 17

Workshop

Women, Banks and Politics: Making Sense of the Intifada

Public research seminar

Whither Lebanon? Crises and (Re)Solutions

Public research seminar

The Geopolitics of Energy Transitions in the Middle East

Public research seminar

Mapping Arabic Sociologies of Religion

Public research seminar

The Importance of the Russian schools in the Middle East 1882-1915

International conference

Neighborliness in Global Perspective - Conference Sequel

Public research seminar

Testimony, Subjectivity and Technology: Video Practices in Syria since 2011

Annual Conference of the Max Weber Foundation

Neighborliness in Global Perspective

Panel Discussion

100 years of “Science as a Vocation”

Salon Conversation

Living in the Mediterranean: Mobilities and Performances in and across...

Panel Discussion

Destruction/ (Re-) Construction

Public research seminar

The New Spatial Contract: migration and the invisible barriers in cities...

Exhibition Opening and Lecture

Critical ecologies: aesthetic practices and the archive

Exhibition

The Peaceful Revolution in the GDR in 1989 and the Short-Lived Syrian...

Public research seminar

The UN-led Peace Talks for Yemen and the Southern Cause

Book fair

Book Sale at Orient-Institut Beirut

Keynote Lecture

Art and Barbarism

Politics of the Machines (POM) Conference

Politics of the Machines (POM) | Beirut 2019 | Art/Conflict

Workshop

Workshop: Open Access

Public keynote lecture

Digital Dust of the Arabic Past": Corpus-Based Research in Arabic & Islamic...

International conference

Digital Humanities Institute - Beirut 2019

An Evening of Storytelling

وثائق بيروتية.. حنين وعبرة

Public book presentation

المدن الأقطاب في لبنان

Public research seminar

Neighbourhoods of Books: The Role of Book Collections in Mamluk Bilad...

Public research seminar

Learning Intelligence: The Exchange of Secret Service Knowledge between...

Public research seminar

Cairo after 2011. The “little” story of a building

Weber World Café

Changing Neighbourhoods

Workshop

Ritualised reactions to subsistence crises: Food riots in the Ottoman...

Public book presentation

The Art Salon in the Arab Region: Politics of Taste Making (BTS 132)

Public research seminar

„Text, Context and Paratext: Maṭāliʿ al-Anẓār Sharḥ Ṭawāliʿ al-Anwār as a...

International conference

Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War

Public event

Contrasting Classical European and Oriental Music. What makes their...

Public research seminar

Roads to the Ruins: Documentary Research Practices of Loss and Presence

Lecture

Lebanese Cultural Players and Authority: Ministry of Culture or No Ministry...

Workshop

Unicode and Computer Typography for Arabic Text: Digital Humanities...

Public research seminar

Neighbourliness in Cairo: Living in the Yacoubian Building

Public research seminar

Why Gender Matters: Feminist approaches to violence, authoritarianism and...

Round table

“Knowledge of Nature and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Interdisciplinary...

WOCMES

OIB Alumni Meeting at WOCMES

WOCMES

WOCMES Panel: Neighbourliness: Neighbourhood relations in Beirut and beyond

Public research seminar

Nejmeh, THE TROUBLED CLUB: Football and Politics in Lebanon

Public research seminar

Friendship between natural enemies: the ambitious fraternity of the Ikhwān...

Public research seminar

Fantasia of the Library: Cataloguing and Classifying in Late Ottoman...

Public research seminar

الرؤية الناصرية لعلاقات الجِيرة مع البلدان العربية المشرقية، بين...

Public research seminar

Migrant labour and the structure of the labour market in Lebanon

Public conversation

In conversation with… Eileen Cooper

Public research seminar

Emotional Cities: Debates on Urban Change in Berlin and Cairo, 1860-1910...

Public research seminar

Between Intelligence and Knowledge Transfer: Soviet-Arab Relations...

Public Screening

Stitching Palestine

Public lecture

When Relations Turn Sour: Ernest Renan and the Islam Debate of 1883 as a...

Public book presentation

Book Presentation at the Book Fair

Public research seminar

Castles and Churches of the Templars in the Holy Land and Syria

"The Financialization of Housing and Real Estate in Lebanon: An Exchange”

International conference

Contextualising the Art Salon in the Arab Region

Public research seminar

Medieval Arabic Cosmography and its Ottoman Reception

Summer School

Reading and analysing Ottoman manuscript sources

Public research seminar

Lebanon after the Syrian Withdrawal: External Intervention, Power-Sharing...

Public research seminar

Post-1967 Arab Political Thought and the Lingering Problem of Modernity

Public research seminar

Christian Political Activism in Lebanon: A Revival of Religious...

Public research seminar

Abbasid Cities (c. 750-950 CE) and Their Slave Markets

Public keynote lecture

Academic mobilities and relational thinking

International workshop

Workshop “Postcolonial legacies, scholarly mobility and research capacity...

Public research seminar

Arab Nationalism as Culture: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

Public research seminar

Preaching the Faith: “Storytellers” in Early Islam

A Suspended Life by Jocelyne Saab

Public research seminar

On (not) drinking: al-Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmah no. 48

Public research seminar

Religion, reform and society: The potential of religion for social...

Public research seminar

What future for Arabian music after two centuries of musicological...

LANDLESS MOROCCANS

Public book presentation

Public Culture and Islam in Modern Egypt

Public book presentation

Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures of Knowledge

The Art Salon in the Arab Region

International workshop

The Ibāḍiyya in the context of early Islamic theology and law

Discussion group

And what if one spoke of the land? Labour, food and the making of space in...

International workshop

Left-Wing Trends in the Arab World (1948-1979): Bringing the Transnational...

Public research seminar

Changing frameworks of transmission. The circulation of Arabic grammar...

Public Screening

Beirut la rencontre

International workshop

The Avant-garde and its Networks: Surrealism in Paris, North Africa and the...

Public research seminar

Pleasure and Intoxication as a Literary Topic. Eating Ḥashīsh in Mamlūk...

Public research seminar

The Political Economy of Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates and...

Seminar

Second meeting of the discussion group "Rural history, Lebanon and beyond"

Public research seminar

A Tale with Two Stories: Legal Development from the Perspective of (Inter-)...

Public research seminar

The Power of Remembrance Political Parties, Memory, and Learning about the...

Summer School

(Call for papers) Reading and analysing Ottoman administrative sources

International workshop

Rethinking Social Movements in the Digital Age: Activism, Dissent and...

Public research seminar

Islamic Mysticism and Philosophical Psychology: Undergirding the Bridges

International workshop

(Call for papers) East Meets West: Western Psychology in Dialogue with...

Workshop

East Meets West: Western Psychology in Dialogue with Islamic Mysticism

Public research seminar

Majāz al-Qur᾽ān – “pre-scientific” philology or late antique linguistic...

Discussion and book launching

Jewish Intellectuals in Baghdad. Discourses and allegiances (1908-1951)

Public research seminar

“Who are you, Nadja?” Unsī al-Ḥājj and the Encounter of Arabic Literature...

Public keynote lecture

The “Abominable Pig” and the “Mother of All Vices”: Pork, Wine and Culinary...

Our Heedless Wars

International conference

Books in Motion: Exploring Concepts of Mobility in Cross-Cultural Studies...

Discussion and book launching

Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity

International workshop

Cross-disciplinary approaches to the Hydraulic Landscapes of the Eastern...

محاضرة

عناية المحدثين بالإسناد

Public book presentation

On priests and modes. Or how the author finally got to understand Byzantine...

Discussion group

Initial meeting: Rural history, Lebanon and beyond

Public book presentation

Entangled Education: Foreign and Local Schools in Ottoman Syria and Mandate...

Public research seminar

Sacred Trash in Medieval Damascus: New 6th/12th- 7th/13th-century Documents...

Public research seminar

Political Remittances and Lebanon: The case of a decentered diasporic field

Seminar

Islamic Art at the Crossroads: Artistic Exchanges between the Middle East...

International conference

The ‘state’ of Lebanon: Concepts of political order in crisis?

Public research seminar

Celestial and Mundane at the Emergence of Islam

International conference

Angels and Mankind: Nature, Role and Function of Celestial Beings in Near...

محاضرة

الشعر المنثور : الشعر المجهول

Public research seminar

My tears flowed like water because of this gracious cypress: Imagery and...

Workshop

Establishing a framework for scholarly editing and publishing in the 21st...

Public research seminar

The archaeology of reading in Ottoman Bilād al-Shām

Public book presentation

مصر الثورة وشعارات شبابها: دراسة لسانية في عفوية التعبير

Public research seminar

Christians in the city: Aleppo in Ottoman times

International forum

Food Fabrication: Culinary practices and food politics in the Arab world

Public book presentation

The taste of gentrification: Arab fast food in Berlin.

International conference

Where is the Middle East heading? Ethno-religious minorities between...

Public research seminar

The unmanly man. Figurations of the eunuch in the works of al-Jāḥiẓ (d....

Public research seminar

Antun Saadeh: The literary critic at the centre of national identity.

Public book presentation

Imperial norms and local realities: The Ottoman municipal laws and the...

International conference

Constitutional Experiences in the Middle East and North Africa (from...

Lecture

Baalbek - The German-Lebanese archaeological project: A new megalith in the...

International conference

The First World War in the Middle East: Experience, knowledge, memory

جلسة مناقشة بمناسبة إطلاق كتاب

مصر الثورة وشعارات شبابها - دراسة لسانية في عفوية التعبير

Public research seminar

Death Becomes Her: Beirut and the Literary Representation of the Dead...

Public book presentation

Twenty years of everyday life: Biography, worldview and self-image in the...

Summer Academy – lecture VI

Modernity and Misplacement: A curious history of anachronism

Summer Academy – lecture V

From the Religious to the Aesthetic Image – or the struggle over art that...

Summer Academy – lecture IV

Dhawq - On the aesthetics of incorporation and the importance of a...

Summer Academy – lecture III

Ontological-Epistemological Renewals within the Dialectics of Tradition and...

Summer Academy – lecture II

Reading Paratexts: The significance of textual frames

Summer Academy – lecture I

Dialectics between Suspicion and Trust

International Summer Academy

Language, Science and Aesthetics

Public research seminar

The Lebanese constitution: Legality in the arena of political philosophy

Public research seminar

Neoliberal Islamism and the Construction of Official Egyptian Nationalism

Public event

Khalil Sarkis and his wife Louise, née Boustani, at the Orient-Institut...

Public research seminar

The religions of Armenians in Lebanon: Current situation and future...

Public research seminar

Dismember remember: The anatomical theatre of Lina Saneh and Rabih Mroué ...

Public research seminar

Expressions of Contemporary Cultural Identity amongst Lebanese Greek or Rūm...

Workshop

Social Sciences at Arab Universities: Opportunities and Constraints

Discussion and book launching

"لبنان الطوائف في دولة ما بعد الطائف: إشكاليات التعايش والسيادة وأدوار...

Public event

Not Who We Are - Documentary film screening

International conference

DiverCities: Contested Space and Urban Identities in Beirut, Cairo and...

International conference

Occult Sciences in pre-modern Islamic culture

Public research seminar

Disciplines of Knowledge, Disciplines of the Self: Re-reading Azhari Reform

Public research seminar

Political Protestantism and autocracy: Kaiser Wilhelm II’s encounter with...

International conference

Whither the nation? National identity in the twentieth-century

Panel at 32nd DOT, Münster, Germany

New Methods in the History and Geography of the Near East

Panel at 32nd DOT, Münster, Germany

Konzepte des Politischen. Grundlagen und Entwicklungen 8.-16. Jh.

Public research seminar

To whom belong the streets? The tramways of Damascus as an example for the...

Public research seminar

Organizing knowledge in Arabic travelogues

Workshop

Conceptual History and Historical Semantics in Middle Eastern Contexts:...

Seminar

The Syria-Iran Axis: Cultural Diplomacy and International Relations in the...

International congress

Inverted Worlds: Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region